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TWO DAYS 

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NIGHT IN AMERICA 



By Samuel Albert Cooper 




BOSTON 

Roxburgh Publishing Company, Inc. 






Copyrighted, 1922 

By The Roxburgh Publishing Co., Inc. 

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CONTENTS 

FIRST DAY 
Under the Stars and Stripes 11 

SECOND DAY 

In the Realm of the Invisible Govern- 
ment 45 

THE NIGHT 
Back Under the Stars and Stripes 93 



INTRODUCTION 

The man, the woman; the husband, the 
wife; the father, the mother; the boy, the 
girl; the brother, the sister — each of these 
form an inseparable part of the American 
Public; the freedom and limitations of action 
of one of these govern that of each member 
of the entire American Public; each of these 
is a United States Citizen, and has an equal 
right with all the rest to the full enjoyment 
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- 
ness; any one of these who has qualified for 
citizenship, whether of native or foreign 
birth, is afforded by law all of the blessings 
of freedom, and the United States Govern- 
ment, as the public agency, is given the power 
and authority to guarantee against inter- 
ference, from any source. 

To these this book is presented. 

In the different fields of industry, groups 
of citizens have formed in defense of these 
rights. The formations took the name of 



Introduction 5 

Unions, and for years these unions have 
fought back those who would deny them 
their rights, without demanding government 
intercession. 

Now they demand that their rights be 
respected and that the law be put into full 
operation. 

The unions have fought their battles 
without implements of war, and yet they 
have fought back a foe to civilization and 
freedom more formidable and dangerous 
than the Kaiser of Germany. 

The unions have done their work and the 
entire American public has been aroused 
and familiarized with the causes of the 
distress and disturbances of recent years. 
There is no longer a need for the unions. 
United States citizenship covers them all 
and the will of the citizen, expressed in law, 
shall henceforth govern, not only the citizen 
himself, but the artificial persons he creates 
and employs in his life pursuits. 

Labor Day no longer signifies the "Dignity 



6 Introduction 

of Labor." Labor lost its dignity through 
man-manipulation and can no longer find 
recognition among United States citizens. 

CITIZEN DAY more aptly fits the day 
of celebration in honor of the thrifty, indus- 
trious citizen who wishes to meet once a 
year the citizens of different occupations 
engaged in other fields. Banners borne by 
different groups indicating the various oc- 
cupations of the different fields, which do not 
carry the stigma of " labor," seem more 
appropriate in the mind of the public, when 
brought into association with the Star 
Spangled Banner afloat in the breezes of a 
free American atmosphere. 

Those citizens who fought so valiantly for 
the dignity of labor were forced to sacrifice 
it for the dignity of citizenship, as they 
witnessed the latter being cautiously but 
surely manipulated by the same forces 
which debased labor. 

Since America's invisible government is 
being driven out, there remains no place for 



Introduction 7 

the labor mart. The presence of one carries 
the stigma of both. 

America's fields of industry are open only 
to those who are worthy of United States 
citizenship. 

THE ARM OF THE LAW 

Unless American law is respected; unless 
the majesty of the law is held in highest 
esteem; unless the arm of the law is made 
to extend through every field of action; 
unless the law is the supreme authority in 
America, — then America is nothing more 
than any other nation has ever been, i. e., 
a common, man-rule government. 

If incumbents of office, the trusted repre- 
sentatives of the American citizen, take the 
law in their own hands, or permit others to 
do so, it would be better to lay aside the law, 
definitely and permanently, in order that the 
law-abiding citizen might have an equal 
chance with the law-breaking element. 



8 Introduction 

If American citizens are merely a group 
of men and women who need a man-ruler 
instead of the representatives they have seen 
fit to choose for the purpose of enacting laws 
by which all shall be governed, and if these 
chosen representatives cannot be relied upon 
to respect the will of the citizens, expressed 
in the laws of their own making — then 
the man-ruler should be set up and publicly 
proclaimed as such, that all might know, in 
order that each man and woman might 
govern him or herself in manner befitting a 
subject, and as quickly as possible train them- 
selves down to a point of submission which 
would fit easily to any change in the mind 
of the man-ruler that might take place, and 
prepare themselves for all the sudden and 
insane changes that take place in the mind 
of the man-ruler. 

It would be better to have no law at all 
than to have law manipulated, it would be 
better to have no law than to have laws which 
can be made to appear to be just, while in 



Introduction 9 

reality they are unjust. It would be better 
to have no law than to have a good law 
enacted and accepted for the general welfare 
and betterment of society, and then have an 
opinion rendered, or an interpretation given 
it that would reverse its meaning, thus throw- 
ing the citizens into a state of bewilderment. 

Better that we had no law than that part 
of the citizens live in constant expectation 
of its operation, while the balance live in 
open defiance of it. 

The United States Government is given 
authority by the American public to enforce 
any and all laws that are valid, and to set aside 
such laws as find their way through legisla- 
tive bodies which are not. No restraints 
are placed upon incumbents of office whose 
duty it is to enforce law, and to extend the 
arm of the law into every field of action, 
and yet, this is not being done in some fields. 

Strikes have been the only effective means 
by which the citizens engaged in these fields 
could acquaint the American public with 



10 Introduction 

this negligence on the part of their chosen 
representatives, and at the same time sound 
warnings of an impending danger to the 
nation they have built as a home for free 
men, each with his guaranteed citizen's 
rights, none of which were being respected. 

In this book it is the purpose of the writer 
to call attention to the dangers of this laxity 
and indifference; the causes of the strife and 
unrest of the citizens who are daily engaged 
in our fields of industry, in the different and 
numerous occupations, and to point out one 
of the greatest menaces to the nation, as 
well as our happy state of civilization, which 
is the back-drift from this happy state and 
government by law, to that of the man-rule 
government which, at the present time is in 
operation, and described in "America's In- 
visible Government." 

Samuel A. Cooper. 



THE FIRST DAY 

UNDER THE STARS AND 
STRIPES 



AMERICA'S ARTIFICIAL 
PERSONS 

Page 

Getting Back to Normalcy 13 

Pilferers of Public Peace 15 

Our Federal Government 17 

The American Public 20 

The Fields of Industry 22 

Myriads of Artificial Persons 24 

Our Fields of Industry in Three Divisions 26 

The Producer, Consumer and Medium 

of Exchange 29 

Four Very Important Artificial Persons 31 

The Enemy of American Normalcy 33 

Reversals of Status — Human Energy 

under Control 36 

Incumbents of Office 40 

Our Governing Agency 42 



THE FIRST DAY 

GETTING BACK TO NORMALCY 

Normalcy in America means life, liberty 
and the pursuit of happiness. 

A very great though invisible power, in 
constant, secret and mysterious operation, 
has gradually forced the American people 
from that highest state of human existence 
the world has ever known, backward toward 
that odious plane of man-rule and servitude, 
upon which plane much of the balance of 
the world's people still exist, and from which 
they are struggling to release themselves. 

Lest this American normalcy be lost 
forever, and this elevated plane of human 
existence be lowered to the planes below, it 
would be well for certain of our American 
representatives, in whom the public have 
placed implicit faith, to look well to domestic 
affairs, while others are so busily engaged in 
the adjustment of disorders which are menac- 



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ing our peace and public weal from sources 
abroad. 

Upon these representative men rests the 
responsibility, to a very great extent, of 
maintaining the public peace, safeguarding 
the public weal, and promoting the welfare of 
each and every American citizen, individ- 
ually, as well as collectively, all of which 
must be done under strict adherence to their 
chosen form of government, as expressed in 
the constitution of the United States of 
America, the constitutions of the several 
states of the Union, and the federal, state 
and municipal laws. 

The public of today demand that these 
representatives meet squarely the domestic 
situation as it exists, not merely to quell the 
agitation and turmoil present in our midst, 
but to locate the causes of the disturbances 
which have for many years disturbed the 
public peace and menaced the general welfare 
of the public at large, and remove these 
causes, not necessarily by means of new and 



Two Days and a Night in America 15 

additional legislation, but by forcing ad- 
herence to Federal and State constitutions 
and obedience to existing laws, such as are 
clearly constitutional, and repealing such 
enactments as have the effect of defrauding 
the public of the full benefit of the good 
government it inherited from those who 
formed it. 

PILFERERS OF PUBLIC PEACE 

Pilferers of the public weal and peace are 
altogether too numerous and bold here. 
They are converting free American soil into 
miniature battle-grounds — forcing our citi- 
zens into battle array against each other — 
making enemies out of next-door neighbors, 
creating disrespect for our laws, and mocking 
our Christian faith; destroying the American 
home, upon which the nation is founded, 
defying and prostituting our courts of justice, 
ignoring the government established by the 
citizens for the government of the citizens, 
and reducing the United States citizen , 



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himself, from the highest plane upon which 
man has ever existed, back to the low base 
plane of the Old World, from which, through 
the slow tedious processes of thousands of 
years, he has courageously forced his way 
to the elevated plane he now occupies — that 
of a free man — a United States citizen. 

From that remote period in the past when 
Time was in its infancy, so far as the human 
family can trace it, when man was just 
emerging from the animal kingdom, man has 
sought to exercise governmental power and 
authority over man, and also to escape it. 

Time present is reproducing the miserable 
scenes of the past in some portions of the 
earth, but the vicious fad of MAN-RULE is 
slowly dying out, and with the final exit, those 
heinous crimes of nations as well as men — 
murder, slavery, robbery — will soon cease 
to trouble the human mind. 

Escaping from the miserable conditions of 
the Old World, with its man-rule governments, 
our forefathers set up a government by which 



Two Days and a Night in America 17 

they and posterity should be governed, and 
in which the "MAN-RULER" was set aside 
and entirely ignored. 

This government is law — nothing more ; 
nothing less — based upon the fundamental 
body embraced in the Federal and State 
constitutions, the different groups and 
branches of which establish the status of 
each individual citizen, independent of the 
presence of any other citizen, confer upon 
him his individual rights and privileges and 
freedom, fixing the lines of limitations in 
each of these; and defends each citizen, in- 
dividually in his full enjoyment of each, 
against any interference of whatever nature, 
by any man, group of men, or force from 
any source. 

OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 

This government cannot be changed, for it 
descends to posterity, and posterity is ever 
present in our great republic, each day re- 



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creating the public anew, and claiming the 
government as its own. 

The "government" is the artificial agent 
of the American public vested with the author- 
ity and power to act and govern, within 
clearly defined lines, beyond which it cannot 
proceed without public sanction. It is au- 
thorized to afford positive guaranty against 
the crafty, shifty mind of man. It is 
that artificial person created and perpetuated 
to the enjoyment and good government of 
all coming generations, and the safeguard 
against any possible enforced return to the 
horrors of the existence out of which man 
has just now emerged. 

State and municipal government are but 
branches of the federal, each an artificial 
person, by the same process created for the 
purpose and convenience of local opera- 
tion. 

Civilization has not eliminated the animal 
instinct in man, it has merely developed a 
mind superior to the animal instinct, but 



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not stronger, and that power which one man 
would wield over another seeks exercise in 
the midst of this great public today, and in 
the very presence of our government, just 
as it did in ancient times, being held in check 
here, when discovered — by the operation 
of law — and that only. 

Here, where man has enjoyed for over 
two hundred years the first unshackled 
existence since he emerged from the animal 
kingdom in the far distant past — he has 
been slow in detecting the presence of an 
INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT which has 
quietly and unostentatiously established itself 
here, cunningly usurping that governmental 
power and authority which our public has 
vested and perpetuated in the artificial 
person we call the United States Government; 
which power and authority cannot be trans- 
fered by either the government or the 
present-day American public to another 
agency. 



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THE AMERICAN PUBLIC 

Approximately 110,000,000 natural persons 
form the body of what we call the American 
Public. The United States Government does 
not know a single individual citizen in this 
entire body of 110,000,000. The law knows 
no man. The rights, privileges and freedom 
of the entire body are guaranteed to each 
individual citizen, and such of these as he 
may lawfully enjoy, so too may all the 
rest. 

The accumulated wealth of the American 
public is the result of the thrift and industry 
of the United States citizen, and all, includ- 
ing lands and money issues of whatever kind, 
belong to the public where ownership is re- 
tained, in order that no individual citizen 
may be denied the enjoyment of it. 

This condition cannot be changed, for as 
the predecessor passes out the successor is 
ushered in; the generation of yesterday left 
for us what they enjoyed yesterday, and we 



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must pass on, unspoiled, to the generation of 
tomorrow what we are enjoying today. 

However, due to the presence of the in- 
visible government so securely established 
here, some very grave problems have pre- 
sented themselves which must be solved 
before our day is spent. 

The operations of this usurper has attracted 
nation-wide attention although the decep- 
tion has been carried on so secretly that its 
presence has merely been felt, there having 
been no open demonstration of either govern- 
mental power or authority, and the operations 
have been confined almost exclusively to our 
great fields of industry. 

When these fields first began to develop — 
soon after the Civil War — the development 
progressed so rapidly, and the expansion of 
the public became so great that due atten- 
tion to governmental affairs was somewhat 
neglected by the citizens, the reins of govern- 
ment being left almost entirely in the hands 
of the representatives chosen by them for 



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that purpose, and this temporary laxity on 
their part made possible the secret establish- 
ment of the invisible government. 

THE FIELDS OF INDUSTRY 

Beginning almost immediately after the 
Civil War of 1861-65, a development of our 
resources began which resulted in a phenom- 
enal expansion of the public into new terri- 
tory, and with the opening up of new fields 
innumerable industries sprang into existence. 

In 1866 the total mileage of railroads 
was little over 35,000 miles. Now we have 
approximately 265,000 miles, a population 
of upward of 110,000,000, approximately 
49 percent of which is urban, and all of these 
cities and towns which dot the surface from 
Atlantic to Pacific and from the Canadian 
line to Mexico and the Mexican Gulf, are 
connected by these thoroughly equipped 
lines of transportation, placing the entire 
public in convenient access to the fields of 



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agriculture, the timber belts, coal and mineral 
districts, and also distributing throughout the 
public and to the ports, the output of the 
factory districts which necessity forced into 
existence to care for the raw products of 
these newly opened fields. 

It is conservatively estimated that at the 
present time over 40,000,000 of our citizens 
are engaged in the pursuits of life, in and 
about these fields and in the cities, and these 
citizens, as indicated by the nature of their 
occupations, are of the most intelligent, active, 
industrious and thrifty persons, not only 
within our own public, but considered as a 
body, in the entire world. 

As developments progressed these citizens 
were drawn from the public to meet the 
demands of progress. The progressive spirit 
of the citizen as well as the public at large is 
made manifest in the phenomenal growth 
and expansion experienced during the brief 
period, yet had it not been for the most 
excellent functioning of the ARTIFICIAL 



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PERSON, fashioned by the public mind into 
a perpetual governor, which was given its pow- 
ers and limitations and entire scope of opera- 
tions through enactments and adoption of law 
passed down to us by the founders of our na- 
tion, such phenomenal development and mag- 
nificent results could not have been achieved. 

MYRIADS OF ARTIFICIAL PERSONS 

Shorn of all governmental power and author- 
ity over the citizens, but otherwise similar to 
this artificial person, other artificial persons 
were created through process of law, each one 
with its distinct individuality and specific 
rights and limitations, as aids and necessary 
conveniences to these industrious citizens as 
they put forth their efforts to keep apace 
with progress as it bore down upon them. 

These artificial persons, the public utilities, 
including all of the ' 'Going Concerns" we 
hear so much about in recent years, are now 
numbered by the hundreds of thousands, and 
are of so vital importance to the public welfare 



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that now they occupy third place in contem- 
plation of the law. The natural person 
(citizen) occupying first place; land, second; 
and the artificial persons, third; all three of 
whom come under the direct government of 
the governmental agency, the artificial person 
we speak of as the United States Government, 
created and utilized by the public for that 
purpose. 

These myriads of artificial persons are 
identified by credentials. The law knows 
them by these credentials and these only. 
These credentials describe them in detail. 
They issue by process of law and non- 
conformity to law forces the credentials into 
court where violations of law are considered 
and penalized, and in cases where it is found 
the law is being wilfully ignored such creden- 
tials are taken from those citizens to whom 
issued and the operation of the artificial 
person continued under direction of the 
court, if need be, or suspended if the public 
weal justifies the suspension. 



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The holders of these credentials, themselves 
citizens, frequently assume authority and 
avail themselves of privileges, and make 
flaunting displays of power which their 
credentials do not, and cannot convey to 
them, and where property rights become in- 
volved they too frequently assert priority of 
property rights of the artificial person, over 
the rights of the citizens themselves. The 
public controls all property rights — the 
citizen merely controlling such rights tem- 
porarily, by permission of the public, so 
long as he holds his credentials, and repre- 
sents the artificial person lawfully, and 
satisfactorily to the needs of the public. 

OUR FIELDS OF INDUSTRY IN THREE 
DIVISIONS 

For convenience of tracing to the source, 
distress, want and poverty in this land of 
great abundance, which occurs so frequently 
and so unexpectedly and so unreasonably in 



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recent years, experienced by first one portion 
of the public and then another, three divi- 
sions of the fields of industry may be made. 

These three great fields are: first, agricul- 
ture; second, mines; and third, the forests. 

And the entire industrial population may 
also be divided into three great groups and 
their activities described, thus: first, the 
producer; second, the distributor; and third, 
the manufacturer; while the public, including 
all of those thus engaged, is the consumer. 

The public depends and relies upon all 
three groups alike, and each group is de- 
pendent upon the other two, thus — the group 
of manufacturers is at the mercy of the pro- 
ducers and distributors, because without 
these two groups their own activities would 
cease; while, on the other hand, the producers 
could not enjoy the full benefits of their own 
productions without the co-operation of the 
manufacturers; while the activities of the 
distributors could not continue without the 
producers and the manufacturers. And the 



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consuming public is at the mercy of each one 
of these groups. 

The guaranty to each American citizen 
is the right to produce and consume without 
interference from any source, and yet, between 
the citizen as a producer and the same citizen 
as a consumer, there is a multitude of men, 
women and children who produce nothing from 
these great fields, but are constant consumers. 

These are: first, the manufacturers who 
prepare raw products for consumption, and 
second, the distributors who place within 
convenient reach the consumable production, 
and as these latter do not produce, yet must 
consume, by common agreement between 
the three groups, in which is represented 
practically all of the American public, a 
standard of value in the gold dollar is em- 
ployed, designed to represent an equivalent 
for all other commodities or things of value, 
as well as a convenient medium of exchange, 
one for the other, to be passed to the pro- 
ducer to effect a release of his raw materials, 



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produced by his activities and in payment 
therefor; thence to the manufacturer, for 
his prepared products, ready for consumption 
and thus converted by his activities, for 
which he receives its equivalent in gold, and 
third, to the distributor, who neither manu- 
factures nor produces, but without whose 
activities as distributor, neither the pro- 
ducer nor the manufacturer could avail 
themselves of the full and free benefits of 
production, while the greater portion of the 
consumers would find it impossible to exist. 
So to this distributor the gold dollar is passed 
in exchange for his activities, and in it he 
finds the equivalent for consumable products 
which he is forced to use. 

THE PRODUCER, CONSUMER AND 
MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE 

Thus the three great groups are connected 
by the medium of exchange, the gold dollar, 
which is the property of the public, put into 
circulation through the mediumship of its 



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authorized agent, the United States Govern- 
ment, and for the purpose of placing and 
maintaining the producer and the consumer 
upon a common plane, although their activ- 
ities call them into different fields, in order 
that life, liberty and the pursuits of happi- 
ness may be experienced and enjoyed by all. 
This is the first legitimate channel through 
which the gold dollar may be permitted to 
pass into circulation, all others being of 
secondary consideration. 

Interference with the legitimate circula- 
tion of this gold dollar is a violation of homes 
of American citizens. If the Invisible Govern- 
ment can obstruct, or tamper with the 
circulation of this gold dollar, so can it ob- 
struct the proper functioning of our govern- 
ment. Withholding any portion of this 
circulating medium from either of these three 
groups or otherwise interfering with their 
activities, their domestic lives, private lives, 
their freedom to act within the limitations 
they themselves have determined upon, is, 



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in effect, the usurpation of governmental 
power and authority by those who are guilty 
of the interference. 

FOUR VERY IMPORTANT ARTIFICIAL 
PERSONS 

Between the citizen as a producer and the 
citizen as a consumer, four very important 
artificial persons are in constant use and 
operation. Of such vital importance to the 
general good and welfare of the public are 
they, that interruptions in their operations, 
or interference with their legitimate function- 
ing as public utilities, often results in throw- 
ing the entire public into a state of con- 
fusion, causing, in many instances, cessation 
from accustomed activities, crippling com- 
merce, creating congestions of materials in 
some sections and scarcity in others. 

These are: first, the lines of transportation; 
second, the lines of communication; third, 
the factories; and fourth, the saleshouse. 

These lines of communication have become 



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an absolute necessity to the citizens. The 
fields of industry extend over so vast a terri- 
tory and the citizens engaged in each of 
them being so dependent upon those of the 
others, and being separated by great dis- 
tances, the slow process of communicating 
through the United States mail does not in 
any way meet the requirements of these 
busy groups of citizens. 

Tampering with the lines of transporta- 
tion is a more serious matter today, than 
tampering with the United States mail, for 
as a matter of fact the supplies of the neces- 
sities of life for the entire public for each 
day's consumption, are actually on board 
and speeding with all haste from the most 
remote portion of one field to the most re- 
mote portion of another, and upon the un- 
interrupted operations of these public utili- 
ties depends the welfare of the public at 
large, and those of our citizens who are op- 
erating these lines, have proven, time and 
again, under most trying and humiliating 



. Two Days and a Night in America 33 

conditions, that they realize that upon them 
rests a great responsibility — a responsibility 
so great that only the stronger citizens of 
the nation can safely assume it. 

The factories are of no less importance, 
for without proper preparation, the bulk of 
all production of raw material is worthless. 

Those citizens who take in hand these in- 
numerable raw materials and manufacture 
them into consumable products furnish the 
citizens of the other fields with the necessi- 
ties of life and the means whereby they may 
continue to avail themselves of those neces- 
sities. 

THE ENEMY OF AMERICAN 
NORMALCY 

This "concern" the saleshouse, is also a 
necessity , as production and manufacture do 
not run evenly. Those of our citizens who 
operate this concern devote their lives and 
confine their activities to the constant calls 
from the consumers for such of the necessi- 



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ties of life as they require from day to day. 
A more active and industrious group of 
citizens cannot be found in our midst. By 
this group the immediate needs of the public 
are at once satisfied, and upon their activities 
the consuming public depend as much as 
upon those of the other three groups. 

Of these four groups of citizens, not one 
acts as a producer of any of the necessities 
of life, except as he refashions and re-sells; 
handles communications to and from the 
public and carries the needed article to its 
destination. 

The gold dollar, their legitimate and lawful 
medium of exchange, is the only means by 
which they may continue their operations 
in the capacity the public needs demand. 
With this gold dollar withheld from them 
their activities must necessarily cease. 

This gold dollar has a fixed valuation. 
None of the necessities of life have. These 
are governed by the law of supply and 
demand, and valuations take the range of 



Two Days and a Night in America 35 

that law. Therefore, the number of gold 
dollars the citizen finds it necessary to employ 
today is not a criterion for the demands 
which will be made upon him tomorrow. 

American normalcy is not based upon 
standards of poverty and want, and ample 
provisions have been made to bar these 
planes of misery from entering into American 
life. This gold dollar is the bar, but when 
forced out of legitimate channels, these in- 
dustrious citizens immediately find them- 
selves upon these planes. 

This medium of exchange is as necessary 
as food, fuel, and raiment, and when it does 
not flow freely and unhampered from the 
United States treasury direct to the citizen, 
those who turn it from the legitimate channels 
are responsible for the appearance of the 
planes of poverty and want upon which the 
citizen is forced to exist. 

These four groups of citizens, not mention- 
ing other groups similarly engaged in the 
fields of industry, are, therefore, at the mercy 



36 Two Days and a Night in America 

of money manipulators, those who gain 
control of the citizen's medium of exchange 
and with it build private fortunes out of 
interest and dividends paid them for the 
private use of it. 

REVERSALS OF STATUS — 
HUMAN ENERGY UNDER CONTROL 

These four artificial persons, the telegraph 
and telephone, (lines of communication), the 
railways, urban and interurban (lines of 
transportation), the factories and saleshouses, 
all public utilities, and all operated by the 
citizens as such, and for public purposes and 
welfare and benefit, shall serve us in illustra- 
ting the manner in which the scientific manip- 
ulation of the gold dollar effected a reversal 
of the status of the citizen (the owner of the 
gold dollar, itself) and the "Concern" (the 
artificial person, created by the citizen's laws), 
placing the artificial person in control in the 
fields of industry, drawing or forcing the natu- 
ral person (the citizen) under that control. 



Two Days and a Night in America 37 

The credential-holders of artificial persons 
undertake to finance the fields of industry 
with public funds which have found lodgment 
in private vaults. These funds, in private 
hands, are styled capital. Public funds is 
not capital, and such a thing as public capital 
is not known here. 

Private capital became an employer of 
labor. But the United States citizen is not 
a laborer in any sense of the word, therefore, 
it became necessary for these credential- 
holders to find some avenue through which 
capital could pass and attach to the citizen, 
since outright purchase is unlawful. 

With sufficient amounts of the public 
funds held in private vaults to create private 
capital, but with no laborers at hand, these 
credential-holders first sought to import 
labor. But this procedure interfered directly 
with the rights of the citizens. The plan 
finally adopted was to gain control of all 
human energy necessary for the operation of 
the fields of industry. 



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With the citizen's money already under 
control, this was not a difficult thing to do, 
for with it property rights were bought in 
and property monopolized. 

This energy was then, and still is, furnished 
by individual citizens. This act of furnish- 
ing energy was styled labor and paid for 
under the dictation of capital, leaving it 
optional with the citizen to either furnish 
his energy as a laborer, with no personal 
rights, or get off the property. Thus we 
find capital and labor here — the artificial 
person master of the natural person, the 
United States citizen, and with these reversals 
of status we witness each day, over 40,000,000 
of America's most thrifty, industrious, strong- 
est citizens, stepping out from underneath 
the stars and stripes of the American flag, 
into the realm of the invisible government 
— a government of man-rule, in operation 
in defiance of our own government, slowly 
destroying the institutions built up by the 
American public, and fighting in the courts 



Two Days and a Night in America 39 

of the land for legal decisions which will have 
the effect of making usurpation appear lawful. 

Decisions are governed very largely by 
attitudes, and attitudes are too often tract- 
able to unlawful influences, especially where 
sinister motives are carefully concealed by 
counterfeit display of good intent. 

Thus by the artful employment of the 
counterfeit display, attitude is too often re- 
versed and by process of the reversal the 
purpose of a good law is defeated, while, by 
the frequent employment thereof, little in- 
roads have been established, winding their 
ways to and from the seat of the invisible 
government to that of our constitutional 
government, and the missions of the fre- 
quenters of these winding roadways is always 
that of making an unlawful act "appear" to 
be lawful. 

By reason of the fact that many of our 
citizens who have spent portions of their 
lives as representatives of the citizens, at our 
seats of government, have returned to private 



40 Two Days and a Night in America 

life with minds filled with this particular 
kind of knowledge, which they have imparted 
to those with whom they mingle, the public 
has gained much knowledge concerning these 
mysterious little roadways, and now seeks 
to close them, demanding in no debatable 
terms that American normalcy be restored, 
while the individual citizen is insistent that 
the public demand be not unheeded, and the 
invisible government be driven out. 

INCUMBENTS OF OFFICE 

Ranging down from the office of President 
of the United States of America to that of a 
look-out at a danger point, offices have been 
established throughout the land as per- 
manent posts to be occupied by citizens 
selected from the public. 

Through these offices the United States 
Government functions. 

The citizen selected to represent the 
public in one of these government branch 



Two Days and a Night in America 41 

offices is an incumbent of office, whose tenure 
of office is regulated by law. 

The attitude of the incumbent must be to 
support the United States Constitution and 
all existing laws, when his particular office 
is called into active operation, and it is the 
duty of the incumbent to see that his office 
is in active operation at all times, when that 
particular group of laws which operate 
through his office are assailed or violated. 

But the attitudes of incumbents are subject 
to change, and a citizen whose attitude toward 
the constitution and existing laws may have 
been true to good government when he 
entered the office, may become a victim to 
influences too strong for him to cope with, 
which results in a change of attitude, ren- 
dering him unfit as an incumbent. There- 
fore the incumbency, unlike the office, is 
temporary. The change in attitude necessi- 
tates a change of incumbents, in order that 
the office may function properly at all times. 

To these incumbents, at the present time. 



42 Two Days and a Night in America 

the public at large, as well as many citizens 
individually, are directing their demands 
that each office of the government function 
properly and in its full capacity, in order 
that American normalcy be restored without 
further annoying delays, and that henceforth 
it shall not be tampered with by foreign 
agencies operating within our midst. 

OUR GOVERNING AGENCY 

The government offices constitute our 
governing agency through which law oper- 
ates. 

Office-holders constitute the body of the 
incumbent of office. 

The attitude of this incumbent must be 
determined as to the reversal of the status 
of the natural and the artificial person. 

Who is the governor in America — the 
public, or the public utilities? Who shall 
control the medium of exchange and the 
human energy? 



Two Days and a Night in America 43 

The public has wearied of pacifying de- 
ceptions. 

There is a cause for every strike that has 
ever taken place in America, and this cause 
may be located in almost every instance, 
directly upon the line which separates two 
groups of citizens, those on the one side being 
the credential-holders of the utility, and on 
the other side the citizens who are actually 
operating it for the benefit of the public, 
the latter being branded ' 'laborers". 

The points of "money invested," "just 
returns for capital," "encouraging enterprise," 
"keeping in motion the wheels of commerce," 
"promoting big business" (at the expense 
of the average citizen who cannot compete 
with fabulous fortunes), have all grown 
monotonous to the public ear, while the 
forcing back of the free American citizen to 
the plane of the Old World laborer, the 
presence of which is not tolerated here, has 
filled the public mind with an apprehension 
that possibly the attitude of our incumbent 



44 Two Days and a Night in America 

has changed, not so much, perhaps, because 
of a willingness to relinquish what civiliza- 
tion has so graciously given us, but because 
he cannot help himself. Cannot cope with 
the "Captain of Finance" and the "Captain 
of Industry"; the man-rulers of the invisible 
government. 



THE SECOND DAY 

IN THE REALM 

OF THE 

INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT 



AMERICA'S INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT 

Page 

Capital and Labor 47 

Officials and Employees 49 

The Politician, Lawyer and Ku KluxKlan 52 
The Ku Klux Klan and the Artificial 

Person 54 

Midnight Moot Court 57 

Hyphenated-Americans 59 

The American Foreignized by the Little 

Hyphen 61 

The Anti-American Group 64 

Still Ambling Along the Zig-Zag Line. . 66 

The Portable Socialist Home 68 

The Business Group 70 

The Group of Women and Children .... 73 

The Labor Mart's Reserve Force 75 

Creating the Reserve Force 78 

Robbing the Home 80 

The Underworld and the Anti-American 

Group 82 

The Usurper's Crime 84 

The Latest Arrivals on the Zig-Zag Line 87 

The Night . 94 

The Dawn 95 



THE SECOND DAY 

CAPITAL AND LABOR 

Consult the pay-roll and the names you 
find written thereon are America's "laborers". 
None can escape the brand. From the 
highest official down to the most humble 
worker connected with the operation of an 
artificial person who draws pay from the 
earnings of that concern, all are laborers, 
and thus branded by holders of the creden- 
tials which permit the concern to operate. 

The president of a railroad and the porter 
wrangle about this, but wrangling does not 
remove the brand from either. They 
squabble about "brains and muscle", and 
when the controversy ends they look at their 
brands and return to work. They are both 
laborers down here, and the little attempts 
at drawing lines of distinction as to which 
of the two is the nicer laborer is devoid of 



48 Two Days and a Night in America 

satisfactory results for either the president 
or the porter, for presently we see the porter 
in the place formerly occupied by the presi- 
dent, while a former president is occupying 
the place of the former porter. If by chance 
they meet again, they again discuss "brains 
and muscle", the discussion again barren of 
satisfactory results. 

The two have frequent disputes about 
education, but neither can satisfy the other 
as to just what education is, or how much of 
it he has. The first time the discussion comes 
up the president may "take a fall" out of 
the porter; while the porter, a short time 
later, will take one out of the president. But 
it matters not which the victor, the brand 
remains on them both. By the scientific 
manipulation of "money" a transfer of the 
two may be effected and the former porter 
made to act just as intelligently as his prede- 
cessor, and surrounded by a coterie of similarly 
employed laborers he "gets along" as nicely 
as did the former president. 



Two Days and a Night in America 49 

If he happens to be a little short on "edu- 
cation" he can hire a laborer who can furnish 
him with anything he desires in that line, 
and "get him cheap". The principal thing 
is his attitude. He must have an attitude 
tractable to the interests of capital, if he 
labors as president. Everything but the 
attitude is furnished him by the concern's 
credential-holders. He must bring the atti- 
tude with him, and if he ever changes it, 
down he goes, and wherever he goes the 
brand, "Laborer" goes with him. 

OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES 

As a matter of convenience in the arrange- 
ments made for the operation of such an 
artificial person, the laborers are divided 
into groups, the two principal bodies of which 
are: first, officials, and second, employees. 

Officials start at president and range down ; 
employees start at porters (or thereabout) 
and range up. 



50 Two Days and a Night in America 

The dead-line between the two groups is 
drawn between the least (in importance) 
of the officials, and the greatest (in impor- 
tance) of the employees. Incidentally, this 
is also the "striking line", when capital and 
labor are at outs. 

The attitude of the officials is tractable to 
capital. To them, therefore is given the 
authority to force a like attitude in the ranks 
of the employees. This line is always charged 
with combustible substances, not placed 
there by either side, but just naturally there. 
Sometimes this line becomes overcharged and 
an explosion takes place which jars the 
nation to the very foundation and puts the 
artificial person out of business for a time. 
These substances are in the nature of oppos- 
ing forces. One man seeks to exercise power 
over another and the other meets him with 
a power equal, if not greater, than his own. 
Here is where the attitude of the official is 
given its acid test, for he is presumed to 
throw everything else aside and consider 



Two Days and a Night in America 51 

only the interests of capital. To his assist- 
ance come the credential-holders, while the 
employees gather around their standard of 
rights, which are not recognized by capital, 
and as there are no courts of justice in the 
realm of the invisible government, the em- 
ployee's position is defenseless. 

An employee's visible means of support 
down here is a "job" and close calculator 
among the credential-holders dictate that he 
shall receive in money just what the actual 
"support" calls for, and no more. 

This job, therefore is well worth keeping, 
and it is presumed by the credential-holders 
that he will prize it so highly that he will 
submit to almost any amount of pressure 
from officials in order that he may continue 
the enjoyment of the "support" derived 
therefrom. 

Thus the official-laborer is forced to force 
the hand of the employee-laborer when the 
credential-holders so dictate. 



52 Two Days and a Night in America 

THE POLITICIAN, LAWYER AND 
KU KLUX KLAN 

Having stepped over the invisible line 
separating our government and the realm of 
the invisible government, we shall leave the 
United States citizens, 40,000,000 strong, 
as that body disintegrates, each individual 
citizen submitting to the enforced reversal 
of status, "gets on the job," and there, with 
every muscle strained, every cell of the 
brain on the alert and the full and undivided 
mind concentrated on the one point of the 
"Interests of Capital" he looses his human 
energy as the captain of industry calls for 
and measures it with meters and gauges 
which register its commercial value as de- 
termined by the master of finance; and, while 
the laborer is thus engaged in "earning" his 
pitiful pittance of his own money, from his 
own realm, to take back across the invisible 
line at the end of his "day-in-the-field", we 
shall stroll along this zig-zag invisible line 



Two Days and a Night in America 53 

and acquaint ourselves with two groups 
of parasites (not speaking disrespectfully of 
them for they cannot help being so) , who have 
been forced into distinctive groups, by reason 
of the presence and operations of the invisible 
government; their respective occupations 
being such as to estrange them from the 
balance of the citizenry by the entangling 
and bewildering points of right and wrong; 
master and servant; labor is worthy of its 
hire; once a laborer, always a laborer, etc. 
But these are also citizens on one side of the 
line and laborers on the other. They of whom 
I speak are the politicians and lawyers, while 
a third group, the Ku Klux Klan, sprang 
into existence as a force to meet and check 
the operations of the other two — this third 
group are also citizens, and also laborers, 
depending upon which side of the line they 
are on. One of the first two groups, the 
politicians, has developed into a legislative 
nuisance as it works constantly between the 
two governments; while the second, the 



54 Two Days and a Night in America 

parasite lawyers have developed into a court 
of justice nuisance as they gather in swarms 
round about the inlets and outlets of massive 
buildings, always ready to entrap, inveigle, 
and persuade — and, failing in these, to 
force issues, if possible, in the interests of 
the master of finance and the captain of 
industry. 

These are the corporation lawyers and the 
corporation politicians, and they have so 
entangled the laws and the courts that just 
decisions are difficult to arrive at. 

THE KLU KLUX KLAN AND THE 
ARTIFICIAL PERSON 

Immediately after the Civil War there 
appeared a disposition on the part of some of 
our citizens to break the spirit of the de- 
feated citizens of the South by encouraging 
the freed negroes to force the whites into a 
position similar to that from which they 
had just been liberated. 



Two Days and a Night in America 55 

The whites organized in defense of white 
supremacy; that organization was known as 
the Klu Klux Klan, and due to their activ- 
ities the movement was checked and finally 
defeated, and with its defeat the Klan 
activities ceased. 

As the slaves passed out, however, the 
"artificial persons" began to make their 
appearance. 

With the passing out of the slaves, slave 
legislation ceased and slave laws were laid 
aside. 

As the artificial person passed in, legislation 
began operations to fix the status of this new 
arrival, and a new set of laws came into 
existence. As the demand for legislation 
increased, the activities of the politician 
increased, and as newly enacted laws became 
more numerous, the demand for more lawyers 
and more courts appeared. 

As time progressed, the natural person (the 
citizen) began to see that the laws of the land 
which had previously protected him, his 



56 Two Days and a Night in America 

home, his property and his individual rights 
as a citizen, were being neglected. All 
interest was being centered in the new 
arrival, the artificial person, to whom all 
favorable legislation was passing, and about 
whom the good reliable old politicians now 
began to cluster, while the newly made 
lawyers limited their learning to the new 
enactments, pinning their faith to the even- 
tual supremacy of the artificial person over 
the natural person. 

The citizen made modest protests at first, 
but later, those who were thrust directly into 
contact with the new arrival, began to openly 
rebel. These rebellions were styled strikes. 

But the American home began to feel the 
effect of this legislation, and that group of 
laws which had previously guarded the 
sacred home, slowly passed into disuse. 
Politicians no longer took interest in them, 
and there was no money in them for the 
newly made lawyers. 

Here the Klu Klux Klan again appears 



Two Days and a Night in America 57 

upon the scene, this time to defend the 
American home and the natural-person 
supremacy over the artificial person. Their 
operations have been confined almost ex- 
clusively to this field. 

MIDNIGHT MOOT COURT 

Having witnessed the results of these en- 
tanglements which almost destroy the legis- 
lature and the court, and having witnessed 
wrongs suffered by citizens nearby which 
failed to find redress in the courts, this third 
group took to the field to assure the citizens 
that there still remained throughout the 
public the sense of justice, and that, pending 
the return to normalcy, this sense would be 
given exercise through this group, and that 
they would identify themselves to the public 
by the donning of long and flowing robes of 
white, with appropriate hoods, with a pot of 
tar for the evil-doer and a word of condolence, 
at least, for the wronged citizen. 

Their "jobs" over the line in the realm of 



58 Two Days and a Night in America 

the invisible government prevent them from 
daylight activities, and also necessitate quick 
action on short notice. Being energy sellers 
in the labor mart, their meagre incomes will 
not permit of court houses, and they find it 
necessary to go to the woods to execute an 
order from their Midnight Moot Court, 
where, although decisions are formed from 
mere hearsay, as a rule, the real evil-doer 
(sometimes) gets the pot of tar. 

The best way to get these cases back into 
courts of justice is to stop the operations of 
the parasite politicians and lawyers, in order 
that the citizen may enter there with his 
complaint and have it properly looked into 
by competent representatives. A great many 
black, foul deeds are committed in the realm 
of the invisible government that are kept 
out of court by the free use of money, because 
the notoriety of the case would have a 
damaging effect upon capital invested, and 
cast a dingy reflection upon the character 
of the captain of industry. 



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HYPHENATED-AMERICANS 

As we pass these three groups, we imme- 
diately encounter another. This group is 
composed of the hyphenated-Americans. 

This little hyphen has more to do, perhaps, 
with the general confusion throughout the 
public than anything else, or, indeed, all else 
put together. 

Over this little hyphen has crept all of the 
ills that have ever afflicted the nations of 
the Old World. This is the little bridge 
over which creeps all of the detested germs 
that have destroyed life, wrecked happiness 
and enslaved men in other nations. Over it 
pass the fanatical religious ideas of the strange 
doings of the Unseen God which craze the 
ignorant and superstitious in other lands. 
Over this hyphen come the customs which 
rot the flesh and destroy the mind. Anarchy, 
murder, rape, robbery, have all passed into 
America over this little hyphen. 

It is generally believed that when a for- 



60 Two Days and a Night in America 

eigner lands in America he at once begins 
to Americanize. It is thought that he sees 
himself in a new guise; that this presentation 
of himself is so real that he absorbs from it 
that which is American, to displace that 
which is unAmerican ; in other words, he sees 
himself with an American mind operating 
through the foreign brain he brought with 
him ; and that as soon as he sets foot on Amer- 
ican soil he hyphenates himself — that is, 
fixes a connection between the American 
mind and the one he left the old country with 
— with the full intent of causing the American 
mind to cross over the hyphen to the recesses 
now occupied by the foreign mind ; drive the 
foreign mind out and there establish the 
American mind for the balance of his earthly 
career. 

Over the hyphen is presumed to pass 
knowledge of the law; good customs formed 
by common and constant usage of the law; 
the new sense of right and wrong; the new 
sense of justice which considers only one man 



Two Days and a Night in America 61 

at a time, yet considers all men in the same 
way and light; the new sense of common 
decency; the love for liberty in such force as 
to prevent one man from interfering with the 
liberty of another; the new sense of self- 
government, which insists that each man shall 
govern himself properly, and that there his 
authority to govern ceases, and demands 
that he leave the other man alone; the new 
sense that every home in America is a separate 
and distinct nation within the greatest 
nation on earth, and must so be respected, 
— and last, but not least, that sense which 
forces the conclusion that a man cannot be 
an American who has no respect for the 
Living God. 

THE AMERICAN FOREIGNIZED BY 
THE LITTLE HYPHEN 

It is presumed that thus an American 
citizen is created for American life through 
the use of the little hyphen, and that all that 



62 Two Days and a Night in America 

is left of the foreigner is the hull and the 
foreign brain, which have nothing to do with 
mind except to obey it, and that while the 
hull and the brain may continue to look and 
act clumsily for a time, that the American 
mind will hold them under strict and correct 
regulations. 

But it has been found that this is not, by 
any means, in the great majority of cases, 
the truth of the matter. 

Instead of the little hyphen carrying the 
American mind to the foreign hull, the 
contents of the foreign mind begin to un- 
load on to the hyphen as soon as the con- 
nection is made which crowds the entire 
passageway to the American end, so that 
entrance of the American mind is blocked 
from the start, and that during that entire 
period which passes in which a foreigner is 
presumed to "qualify" the hyphen has been 
loaded to its utmost carrying capacity with 
the germs from the foreign mind and that at 
the expiration of that period, when he 



Two Days and a Night in America 63 

receives his citizenship papers, he steps out 
into the public with his germ-laden mind 
just as it was when he left the foreign shore, 
and with the little hyphen still connected 
up ready to connect himself with some real 
American who unsuspectingly and unwittingly 
receives the germs into the American mind 
recesses, while the American mind goes — 
whither, we do not know, but we often see 
the American in recent days walking around 
among other men with every foreign germ 
working its full capacity, while he emits 
from his foreign mind composition, working 
through his American brain, and over his 
American tongue, and through his American 
lips the very germs that made the Old World 
untenable. 

This group which we have just visited — 
this Hyphenated-American group — is com- 
posed very largely of Foreignized- Americans, 
who are germ diseased to the very core. 



64 Two Days and a Night in America 

THE ANTI-AMERICAN GROUP 

An Americanized foreigner is no longer a 
foreigner but an American. And that much 
discussed standard of one-hundred-percent 
American is as often reached by an Ameri- 
canized foreigner as by the American born. 
But, neither the hyphenated-American nor 
the foreignized American ever reach that 
standard so long as the little hyphen connects 
the two. 

So, as we proceed along the zig-zag border 
line, we should fix clearly and indelibly in 
our minds a few truths concerning this 
group of hyphenated and foreignized Ameri- 
cans, for it is one of the most powerful groups 
on American soil, and does not confine its 
operations to the realm of the invisible 
government alone, but overspreads the entire 
nation. 

The first object of this group is to "Get 
the Money". That is what brings them 
here in the first place. 



Two Days and a Night in America 65 

The next object is to break down society 
as they find it here. 

This is the group through which passes all 
of the propaganda of the revolutionists and 
anarchists of the Old World, as well as that 
originating within its own circle. This is 
the Anti-American idea. 

This is the group that extends the American 
welcome to the former associates across the 
seas, and when arrived introduces them into 
the realm of the invisible government. 

This is the group that furnished the first 
formation of the contemplated revolt against 
the United States Government when this 
government was drawn into the World War 
fracas. 

This is the group that filled the ranks of 
American unions with anarchists and revolu- 
tionists under the pretence of Universal 
Brotherhood of Man. 

This is the group from which issues through- 
out all America, all of the outlaws of the land. 

Within the circle of this group is to be 



66 Two Days and a Night in America 

found the full and complete data on "labor 
arrangement" of the Old World. From this 
circle the master of finance makes his selec- 
tion of captain of industry, and the captain of 
industry makes further selections through 
whom to successfully put into operation the 
"labor arrangement" agreed upon, as he 
assumes the responsibilities of pushing affairs 
in our great fields of industry to successful 
issues from the viewpoint of capital and labor, 
with the invisible government backing capital. 

STILL AMBLING ALONG THE ZIG-ZAG 

LINE 

And let us not forget as we amble along 
the zig-zag line separating the realm of the 
invisible government from that of the land 
of the free and the home of the brave, that 
within the circle of the group we have just 
left was formed the nucleus of that organiza- 
tion so widely and unfavorably known as the 
Industrial Workers of the World, into which 



Two Days and a Night in America 67 

thousands of the very best boys of America, 
ranging from fifteen years of age upward, 
were drawn unwittingly, who had no more 
intention or thought of handicapping, or 
hampering the United States Government 
than you or I; but, being engaged in and 
about the fields of industry, and being of im- 
mature mind development, and therefore 
lacking in mature judgment, were easily 
persuaded and deceived into believing that 
the stand they were making and the acts 
they were committing were against the 
oppressing hand of the "Employer" as that 
mysterious "somebody" was pictured to 
them, and not until it Was too late did they 
discover that they were taking part in a 
movement calculated to destroy all govern- 
ment and throw the world back into a state 
of anarchy. 

They caught the brunt of an Anti-American 
conspiracy, and will carry undeserved brands 
forever. 

These and other of America's hopeful and 



68 Two Days and a Night in America 

prided youth became alienated from the 
government of their native land and were 
forced to join the An ti -American group, 
while tolling out energy, at "so much per day" 
or hour, in the realm of the invisible govern- 
ment, through the different channels pre- 
pared for them by the master of finance 
and the captain of industry. 

THE PORTABLE SOCIALIST HOME 

Within this circle is also to be found the 
portable socialist home. 

This socialist home, like the Wandering 
Jew, has never been able to qualify in all 
things, for full recognition, by any govern- 
ment in the world since formations of society 
began. They are happy when in possession, 
but extremely unhappy when out of posses- 
sion. The socialist home and the Wandering 
Jew have been kept constantly on the shift, 
until now they have found permanent lodg- 
ment in this group on the zig-zag line dividing 



Two Days and a Night in America 69 

the United States Government of America 
from Americans' Invisible Government, but 
due to their ungovernable passion for "easy 
money" and "free possession", both of which 
are held out as promises by the master of 
finance and the captain of industry if they 
will but haw and gee properly when they 
hear the voice of the master, these two 
wanderers have been drawn into the realm 
of the invisible government, and held there 
by the magnetic power of money, now and 
then appearing on the zig-zag line where we 
find them today, to look wistfully upon fair 
America across the way, which offers them 
all, if they will but Americanize and drop 
their little hyphens. 

We are now approaching another group, 
quite different from those we have just visited. 
This group, however, is just across the line, 
while opposite them stand the master of 
finance and the captain of industry in their 
own realm. The group across the way are 
American churchmen. They know of the 



70 Two Days and a Night in America 

conditions existing within the realm of the 
invisible government and are taking close 
range observations. The master of finance 
and the captain of industry have met them 
there for the purpose of opening negotiations 
and as we draw near we hear them telling 
of the rich churchmen of their realm; the 
rich churches of their realm, giving their 
assurances and showing their papers of proof 
that "American gold is the only coin used 
in the realm, and is plentiful." 

But the group stands unmoved; their only 
response being — "We shall not come." 

So we leave this group of Americans, and 
pass on along the zig-zag line. 

THE BUSINESS GROUP 

Just ahead of us and occupying positions 
on both sides of the line is one of the liveliest 
and most interesting groups on the line. 
They operate on both sides of the line, being 
drawn first to one side and the other and back 
again, by the magnetic power of money. 



Two Days and a Night in America 71 

This group has a greater variety of national- 
ities, individualities, personalities, religions, 
creeds, denominations, politics, sensibilities, 
modes, manners, schemes, plots and conni- 
vances to "get along in the world" than any 
group in America. This is the business 
group. 

This group has its headquarters in the 
invisible government, where money is always 
available, and branches out to every part 
of the United States. 

Business has a range as broad as the ac- 
tivities of 110,000,000 people require. There 
is no spot on American soil that is not open 
for business, and there are only a few Ameri- 
can citizens, a few of the groups, who are 
not actively engaged in some kind of business. 
Men, women, and very frequently (too 
frequently) children are industriously direct- 
ing human energy through their active 
brains and bodies to keep business alive and 
on the move, while the few groups who are 
not, are endeavoring to control that energy, 



72 Two Days and a Night in America 

with the money they already have under 
control, and thus secure for themselves the 
profits which lawfully and rightfully belong 
to the person who supplies the energy, whether 
it be a man, woman, or child. 

The energy of 40,000,000 of our citizens 
has already passed under this control, and 
desperate efforts are being put forth to 
engulf the balance, with a good chance 
of eventual success, for big business now 
presumes to control the smaller business, and 
big business has gotten in touch with the 
master of finance and the captain of industry, 
and big business is taking capital's dictations, 
and capital insists upon a profit on every 
bit of human energy put into the fields of 
industry, so that wherever business enters 
the field it is brought directly under the 
control of the master of finance and the 
captain of industry, and such citizens as 
will not submit to this are run out of business 
and put into the "Labor Mart". 



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THE GROUP OF WOMEN AND 
CHILDREN 

For the time we shall leave this interesting 
group and pass on to the next, for the day of 
the 40,000,000 laborers whom we left early 
in the day, tolling out their energies to the 
captain of industry, is drawing to a close 
and before the fields are vacated we wish to 
visit another group and still another, so we 
shall pass on to the group of women and 
children we see yonder and learn why they, 
too, are in the realm of the invisible govern- 
ment and what brought them there. 

Here we see them — mothers, daughters, 
sons, brothers, sisters, of all ages, and in all 
the different stages and states and conditions 
of "health." Unschooled, undeveloped in 
mind or body; and, although perhaps decently 
clad, without homes. 

The fields of industry came suddenly into 
existence, and turned out to afford splendid 
opportunity for the manipulation of money, 



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provided manipulation were permitted. 
When money for this purpose became avail- 
able, and that, too, in great abundance, the 
enterprising manipulator found no difficulty 
in putting the money into active operation 
in first one channel and then another, until 
the atmosphere became electrified with enter- 
prising schemes. Business began to boom, 
and wherever it appeared in a new place, 
capital went after it and got it. 

The idea was to "Get the Business" and 
turn the business man, or woman, or boy, 
or girl, over to the captain of industry for his 
"Labor Mart," and the captain of industry 
did it. 

For a long while the ex-business man 
tolled out his energy as per capital's dictates 
and tried to keep abreast the times, taking 
his place in the labor mart in order that he 
might maintain a home and keep his family 
there during the period of natural develop- 
ment and maturity, but while expenses in- 
creased, energy was on the ebb, and capital 



Two Days and a Night in America 75 

certainly would not pay for energy not 
furnished. So the mother was brought into 
the field, with less energy than he, and lower 
rating by reason of its being forced into the 
mart by necessity. It was in fact, a splendid 
opportunity which presented itself to the 
master of finance and he eagerly took ad- 
vantage of it. 

Sickness took the mother, then came the 
boy — the ex-business man broke in health, 
then came the girl. 

THE LABOR MART'S RESERVE FORCE 

Thus we find the mother taken from the 
home and thrown into the labor mart. 

There is one agency only authorized to 
separate home and mother; that agency is 
death, and receives its authority from a 
plane far above that inhabited by man. 

Yet here we find home and mother mere 
things of convenience playing a part in an 
up-to-date, nifty, money-making scheme. 



76 Two Days and a Night in America 

The home is looked upon as a good and proper 
place to generate new energy for the use of 
the master of finance and the captain of 
industry as they defiantly flaunt the power 
of the invisible government in the face of the 
American Public. Once in the labor mart it 
is no longer "mother," but "working girl". 
And the "home" is now a "room". The 
home is robbed of the mother; society is 
robbed of a woman worthy the name, and 
the mother is not only robbed of all the 
joys of home and motherly existence, but is 
forced to continue an existence in the labor 
mart, kicked and cuffed about by the scum 
of the earth. 

As the boy enters the arena the develop- 
ment of mind is checked and years afterwards 
he enters the state of manhood fully developed 
in body but with mind dwarfed. Training 
does not develop mind but this training will 
hold him in the groove for which he is trained, 
and as we look upon him in the invisible 
government we see a man of forty-five years 



Two Days and a Night in America 77 

with a fifteen-year old boy's mind develop- 
ment, tolling out to the captain of industry a 
man's energy and forced to accept for it a 
boy's allowance because the man cannot 
leave his groove and subsist. The fate of 
the girl, thus far is the same as that of the 
boy, but she being weaker succumbs more 
quickly to fiendish and brutal attacks than 
the boy, and often becomes an outcast, even 
from the realm of the invisible government, 
long before the frail body has fully developed. 

But there is a place provided for the out- 
cast, both the girl, and the boy, and also 
the mother, if she endures the ordeals. 

The master of finance and the captain of 
industry would be very unwise, indeed, to 
undertake to operate the great fields of 
industry without a reserve force of energy 
convenient to hand for use in case of emer- 
gency, or unforeseen turns in business activ- 
ities. And of such as these the requisite 
reserve force is created, while a variety of 
methods and schemes are employed to force 



78 Two Days and a Night in America 

the mother, boy and girl under control as 
quickly as possible. The sooner they come 
the more easily they are moulded into their 
respective grooves, and the less apt they are 
to leave them. 

CREATING THE RESERVE FORCE 

The ex-business man is found to have 
grave faults as a laborer; he does not toll out 
his energy properly and generously enough; 
he has too much of a general knowledge and 
does not concentrate mind on the interests 
of capital as becomes a good laborer; he does 
not exactly fit into the groove prepared for 
him, and sometimes has the temerity to step 
entirely out of it. Therefore, he is dis- 
carded to the reserve force, there to await 
an emergency call. He then becomes one 
of the ''5,000,000 unemployed". 

The mother, unaccustomed to the inde- 
cent and rough jostle, shows irritation after 
patience has become exhausted, and she too, 



Two Days and a Night in America 79 

is discarded, for the time being to the reserve 
force, making number two in the ranks of 
the unemployed. 

The boy, not yet broken-spirited, is branded 
with a few appropriate faults, and finds his 
way into the reserve force, where spirit- 
breaking methods are employed which fit 
him for the laborer's groove before he is 
given another trial in the labor mart. He is 
number three, while the girl, number four, 
receives such treatment as would immedi- 
ately carry the case into court, if there were 
any courts in the realm of the invisible 
government. But, she too, is rejected to 
the reserve force, to await a call from the 
labor mart. 

Many United States citizens are born in 
the realm of the invisible government, all 
of whom "do time" in the reserve force, 
swelling the numbers to almost unbelievable 
figures. But still that force is inadequate 
to the demand of holding in subjection the 
40,000,000 laborers of the fields and meeting 



80 Two Days and a Night in America 

emergencies as they arise. Hence the neces- 
sity for a greater reserve force, and more 
material out of which to create it. 

ROBBING THE HOME 

Since the laying aside of that group of 
laws which governed and protected the 
citizen's home, including the family circle, 
the way has been open for intruders and 
pilferers to enter this sacred domain without 
much danger of being brought to justice, 
and in the absence of the protection of the 
law, defense of the home and the family 
circle, from within the circle is considered 
about as great an offense as the attacks made 
upon them. Therefore it has become a 
matter of sitting by and watching first one 
member of the family circle and then the 
other taken, and at last the old home, itself, 
while all the energy from this circle is drawn 
into the realm of the invisible government. 

The breaking up of these family circles is 
not a difficult, nor under existing conditions 



Two Days and a Night in America 81 

a dangerous undertaking. The country has 
filled with professional "family-busters" from 
the group of hyphenated-Americans and 
foreignized Americans; these, with the able 
assistance of the parasite politician and 
lawyer can invade the home of any citizen 
on American soil and take the member they 
choose, or all if they choose, or break up the 
home if they choose so that the members 
thereof will scatter, eventually finding their 
ways down into the realm of the invisible 
government in search of money. 

And thus they stream in from all direc- 
tions — ruined boys, ruined girls, ruined 
mothers and ruined fathers, each one to 
undergo the process of preparation for the 
groove he is to be fitted into, where he may 
be compelled to toll out what energy he has, 
whether he wishes to or not. 

Here the law of "The Survival of the 
Fittest" is brought into play, and rejections 
go to the reserve force, the ranks of the 
unemployed. 



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This reserve force, maintained without 
cost to the master of finance, is kept amply 
filled with a constant inflow of rejections, 
and it is calculated that the number kept in 
this reserve should be about one-eighth that 
of the regularly working force of the fields 
of industry, the 40,000,000 laborers who are 
now about to depart from the realm of the 
invisible government and retire to the pro- 
tection of the United States flag for the 
night. 

But before we leave the fields for the night 
we shall visit the reserve force for a few 
moments and try to learn what becomes of 
members of that force when they are finally 
rejected from it also. 

THE UNDERWORLD AND THE ANTI- 
AMERICAN GROUP 

The reserve force is the ultimate end of 
man and civilization, so far as America's 
invisible government is concerned. 



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From the American public they draw the 
United States citizen and by means of old 
enslaving methods and processes convert him 
into a "laborer," then apply the law of the 
survival of the fittest as it concerns capital 
and labor, which hinges upon the point of 
the "attitude" toward capital. 

The steadily increasing numbers added to 
the reserve force each year is the undeniable 
evidence that the master of finance and the 
captain of industry fully appreciate the im- 
portance of the existence of such a force and 
that they handle the matter in a genuinely 
big business manner, that is, providing against 
exhaustion of force through the presence of 
the reserve force, and keeping it well filled, 
while, at the same time, drawing constantly 
upon the public for new recruits. 

But there are three agencies constantly at 
work on this reserve force, drawing from the 
ranks of "unemployed" constantly. These 
are disease, the underworld and the anti- 
American group. Disease is taken in hand 



84 Two Days and a Night in America 

by the philanthropist; the underworld by the 
Christian and the Anti-American group by 
the anarchist. But despite the efforts of 
the philanthropist and the Christian, disease 
and the underworld and the Anti-American 
group through their activities keep the 
American public in a constant state of unrest, 
turmoil and apprehension, lest the entire 
body become infected and gradually rot away. 

THE USURPER'S CRIME 

There is no reason why labor marts should 
not be established and maintained in the 
Old World, for no provisions have been 
made there to prevent it, but here, in America, 
attention is called to the very important 
fact that every person we see in the group 
we are now approaching, if American born, 
or if naturalized through due process of the 
law, is an American citizen, and as he stands 
before us, in that group, can claim the pro- 
tection of every American law. 



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He has been defrauded, cheated, robbed 
and degraded. As we see him in this reserve 
force, the dignity, manhood, and American 
spirit has been "processed" out of him. 
There is no semblance left of his former 
self and his identity is traceable only by 
records kept in the realm of the invisible 
government. 

This is the group which blights American 
citizenship. Here we find poverty and want, 
disease and crime. The American citizen 
occupying the lowest plane on earth, for the 
plane below it is in the underworld. 

Pleas for humanity are now stale and 
commonplace. The word humanity has no 
meaning in this realm. This is a cause now 
thought to be worthy of attention only at 
the beginning of the end of the earthly 
career. But not so with that of the citizen, 
this must receive attention now, and with 
the attention it receives, humanity will be 
given another uplift. 

As "the day in the field" draws to an end, 



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our 40,000,000 laborers stream out of the 
factories, the saleshouses, the mills, the 
mines, the lines of transportation, and those 
of communication, the skyscrapers; the la- 
borers from each one of those myriads of 
artificial persons which operate in the fields 
of industry, are now scurrying homeward, 
to spend the night 'neath the Star Spangled 
Banner, to return to the realm of the invisible 
government at break of dawn, there to resume 
the tolling out of human energy to the master 
of finance and the captain of industry, for 
another trifling pittance of the coin minted 
by the United States Government, by author- 
ity of the public — the citizen. 

But the group before us does not move — 
this group is idle — this group has nowhere 
to go. On the zig-zag line it must remain, 
but as we turn to leave it two very unex- 
pected groups of other citizens, not hereto- 
fore seen, gather on each side of the zig-zag 
line to view the idle group. 



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THE LATEST ARRIVALS ON THE ZIG- 
ZAG LINE 

On the American side of the zig-zag line 
a group of American citizens (not laborers) 
began to form. This is a group of citizens 
we have not seen before, in or about the 
realm of the invisible government, or along 
the zig-zag line. As the formation pro- 
ceeded, citizens from the four points of the 
compass marched with quick, firm tread 
and took their places in the forming group. 
Some came in squads of indefinite numbers, 
but the great majority came as individual 
Americans — every man a man and without 
a hyphen — while some of those who came 
in squads still carried their hyphens, but had 
them carefully concealed from sight, wrapped 
neatly with miniature United States flags. 
This was evidently the fruit of the labors of 
the parasite politician and lawyer, but an 
American thus made does not endure the 
tests of Americanism, hence the knowledge 



88 Two Days and a Night in America 

of the presence of these hyphenated Americans 
on the American side of the zig-zag line. 

Now and then, from this direction and that, 
was noted the approach of an American 
woman. She, too, stepped briskly forward 
and took her place in the rapidly forming 
group. 

As the formation proceeded, these citizens 
revealed themselves to be the incumbents of 
the numerous United States Government 
offices. 'Twas just at dusk — the last hour 
of a long day — but they had come, at last, 
those with scope of the broadest authority 
down to those of the most exacting limita- 
tions; from office nearby and that remote, 
federal, state and municipal came the in- 
cumbents and formed along the zig-zag line. 

On the other side of the line the other 
group formed, which placed the reserve force, 
the unemployed, the idle group, between the 
two new arrivals. 

This latter formation was composed of the 
credential holders, the security holders, the 



Two Days and a Night in America 89 

bondholders, the mortgage holders, the 
leaseholders, the stockholders, each one 
appearing as an owner, or part owner, of an 
artificial person, and at the head of this 
formation appeared the master of finance 
and the captain of industry, under whose 
government they had placed the great army 
of artificial persons, and just back of this 
group, formed another, a very large group, 
each individual member of which was a 
hyphenated American as were also those of 
the group in front. 

This group was very large, and the forma- 
tion took place under strict regulations and 
instructions in writing from headquarters, 
under dictations from the seat of government 
of the usurper's realm, over the signatures of 
the master of finance and the captain of 
industry. 

These were the officials — the citizens with 
attitudes tractable to the interests of capital, 
chosen by reason of their aptitudes and 
adaptabilities to tractability. 



90 Two Days and a Night in America 

This is the group through whose instru- 
mentality the citizen is drawn from the 
public, put into the groove, forced to submit 
to the metering out of his energy and the 
acceptance of a valuation placed upon it by 
capital's dictate; these are the citizens 
utilized in the realm of the invisible govern- 
ment to rush incoming citizens along the line 
as rapidly as possible to the ranks of the 
unemployed, the great reserve force of the 
fields of industry; these are the citizens who 
are forced to act as strike-makers when big 
business slacks up, and to force the energy 
from the citizen by any of the methods 
known to man, when big business begins to 
pick up. 

This is the group that always appears 
on the battle line of the American strike and 
faces the citizen on the other side of the line. 

Their sympathies are on the other side of 
the line, with the striker, but their individual 
interests and safety are on the side of the 
strike makers. That is why they become 



Two Days and a Night in America 91 

officials. They wish to escape what they 
know to be in store for the citizen on the 
other side of the line. They range from the 
president down to the smallest calibered 
manager, and his punier assistant. And 
they have gathered before us in this great 
formation to lend their aid to the master of 
finance and the captain of industry as the 
point of supremacy between the natural 
person and the artificial person is being 
settled by the group of incumbents on the 
other side of the zig-zag line. 



THE NIGHT 

BACK UNDER THE STARS 
AND STRIPES 



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THE NIGHT 

BACK UNDER THE STARS AND 
STRIPES 

As night settles we turn to leave, we can 
do no good there, the two greatest powers 
in the universe are drawn up along the zig- 
zag line — the power of good and the power 
of evil; the power to free and the opposing 
power to enslave; between the two opposing 
powers is the evidence of the workings of the 
invisible government, and from this evidence 
shall be deduced facts which will not fail to 
bring forth the decision of justice. 

But we must remember that these two 
powers are in the hands of men, and that 
these men must be true to powers they repre- 
sent. The evidence indicates that the men 
identified in the realm of the invisible govern- 
ment have been true and faithful, but the 
presence of this power has been carefully con- 
cealed and disguised under the camouflage of 
good intent, and the evidence against them, 
the group of the reserve force, has also been 



Two Days and a Night in America 95 

camouflaged under the pretense of "inability 
to furnish employment," due to "this, that 
and the other thing," and that, therefore, 
our incumbents have been slow to see, and 
entirely unsuspecting, but that now they do 
see, and need not suspect, for the evidence is 
before them, and it is believed they will, 
without further delay arrive at their con- 
clusions and announce their decision, and with 
this decision, liberate those in the reserve force 
and eliminate the labor mart, and drive both 
labor and the invisible government from the 
fields of industry, retaining all public utilities, 
just as they are, for the use of the citizen, and 
place the citizen in charge thereof, the posi- 
tion he is presumed to have been occupying 
all the time, that of first person, in America. 

THE DAWN 

As we slowly wend our way homeward, 
along the zig-zag line whence we came, but 
with face now turned to the West — again 
to the West, we pass the quiet, orderly Amer- 



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ican home situated on the American side of 
the line, which side we happily take for our 
return after our two days and a night in 
America and the realm of America's invisible 
government. 

Home after home we pass. The family 
circle, whether broken or merely menaced is 
slumbering peacefully as the night wears on, 
under the protection of the United States 
flag. The madness of the day just spent has 
left them completely exhausted, but the 
sense of security for the night, and the 
belief that the dawn of the coming day will 
bring with it the decision of the incumbents, 
which means to them the return to American 
normalcy, have opened the door for the sooth- 
ing, recreating powers of slumber, and thus 
we leave them, the 40,000,000 industrious, 
thrifty, law-loving citizens, with their family 
circles and ties broken or unbroken as they 
found them at the end of the day just closed, 
to awake with the break of dawn and receive 
the decision. 



